Fourth Quarter 1999 Highlights
* June 30, 1999 -- Navy Federal Credit Union, the world's largest credit union, signs contract with CheckFree for electronic billing and payment powered by CheckFree. * June 15, 1999 -- CheckFree takes aim at 100 million Internet consumers. Free introductory offer, growth in electronic billers, customer care capabilities and payment offerings outlined. * June 2, 1999 -- Hawaiian Electric to become first Hawaiian utility to offer EBP through agreement with CheckFree. * May 12, 1999 -- Pete Sinisgalli promoted to president and chief operating officer of CheckFree. Sinisgalli served as executive vice president and chief operating officer since October 1996. * May 6, 1999 -- Home Account Network signs distribution agreement for CheckFree E-Bill(SM), to be offered with Canopy Internet banking software. * May 4, 1999 -- Cox Communications, one of the nation's leading communications companies, signs agreement with CheckFree for electronic billing and payment. * April 14, 1999 -- Bank One becomes the first bank to offer fully integrated electronic bill delivery through the Integrion Financial Network, using CheckFree's growing network of billers. * April 13, 1999 -- CheckFree announces EC Solutions, a new division that will provide consulting and professional services to prospective and existing clients, industry partners and other organizations.
Third Quarter 1999 Highlights
* March 22, 1999 -- PNC Bank, Integrion Financial Network and CheckFree announce plans to pilot a fully integrated, Web-based electronic banking, bill delivery and payment service for PNC Bank customers. PNC Bank already uses CheckFree for its bill payment service via personal financial management software and telephone bill payment. * March 19, 1999 -- CheckFree rolls out the first large-scale system support for the Open Financial Exchange (OFX) specification for electronic banking and bill payment. CheckFree's electronic payments engine now supports OFX for transactions processed on behalf of 400,000 users, making it the largest in-production OFX-compliant system in the industry. * March 17, 1999 -- CheckFree and Equifax E-Banking Solutions, one of the largest providers of electronic banking software in the United States, announce that they have signed a three-year reseller agreement. Under the agreement, Equifax E-Banking Solutions will resell CheckFree E-Bill(SM) services to their customers, which include banks, credit unions and savings institutions worldwide. * March 16, 1999 -- CheckFree's Investment Services division reaches 600,000 portfolios on CheckFree APL and APL WRAP portfolio management system. These portfolios total more than $400 billion in assets. * March 15, 1999 -- Countrywide Securities Corporation selects CheckFree RECON Trade(TM) to automate reconciliation deposits throughout the company. * March 8, 1999 -- CheckFree Holdings Corporation announces the acquisition of Mobius Group, a leading provider of money manager databases and financial planning software to the financial services industry. The Mobius Group will allow CheckFree's Investment Services division to offer the broadest suite of investment consulting services and products in the industry today. * March 4, 1999 -- billserv.com and CheckFree sign a service bureau agreement whereby billserv.com will transmit billing information from its base of biller customers to CheckFree, enabling CheckFree to provide electronic billing and payment services to the growing number of consumers who want to pay their bills electronically. * March 3, 1999 -- CheckFree's Investment Services division announces that it has successfully implemented the necessary code enhancements to make both CheckFree APL and APL WRAP product lines "Y2K-ready." CheckFree APL/APL WRAP is the leading portfolio accounting, performance measurement, trading and reporting system in the industry. * March 1, 1999 -- CheckFree and Nevada Power Company announce an agreement for electronic billing and payment. The service will be available to Nevada Power's more than 550,000 electricity and energy services customers. * Feb. 24, 1999 -- MCI WorldCom, one of the leading global communications companies, launches its electronic billing and payment service for residential customers -- backed by CheckFree's infrastructure. * Feb. 16, 1999 -- Illinois Power, an electric and gas utility serving approximately 650,000 customers in Illinois, signs an agreement with CheckFree to offer electronic billing and payment using CheckFree E- Bill. * Feb. 8, 1999 -- CheckFree announces the installation and successful activation of a dedicated trading interface between its Investment Services division and Interstate/Johnson Lane, a Charlotte-based brokerage and investment-banking firm. This new trading interface provides Interstate/Johnson Lane with true "interactive" trading functionality, including the ability to electronically communicate trading information directly to the trading floor for immediate execution. * Feb. 1, 1999 -- CheckFree names Mike Meriton as the new president of Corporate Commerce Solutions, a unit of CheckFree's Software division. * Jan. 26, 1999 -- CheckFree and Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., the nation's largest independent mortgage lender with nearly 2 million customers, sign an agreement for electronic billing and payment. * Jan. 25, 1999 -- CheckFree's Investment Services division announces a new agreement with Boston-based State Street Research & Management Co to provide portfolio trading and accounting services. * Jan. 11, 1999 -- NIIT joins CheckFree Biller Alliance Program to speed time-to-market solution for billers that choose to house their own internal server to link to CheckFree E-Bill version 2.0.
Second Quarter 1999 Highlights
* Dec. 28, 1998 -- Ameren Corp. selects CheckFree to provide electronic billing, distribution and payment option for its 1.8 million customers in Missouri and Illinois. * Dec. 14, 1998 -- CheckFree and Southern Company, the largest producer of electricity in the United States, sign agreement to provide CheckFree E-Bill to its customers. * Dec. 9, 1998 -- Data warehousing agreement is signed between CheckFree and Business Technology Alliance to provide Investment Services clients using CheckFree APL and APL WRAP the ability to store, integrate and present mission-critical data for internal and customer reports. * Dec. 7, 1998 -- CheckFree licenses bill creation Internet billing solution from BlueGill Technologies. Through the software/server solution, billers have an expanded choice of providers to convert existing print files to create electronic bills with enhanced marketing opportunities. * Dec. 2, 1998 -- Oracle partners with CheckFree for electronic billing and payment, which will be fully integrated with Oracle's Internet Bill & Pay. * Dec. 2, 1998 -- CheckFree announces next generation of CheckFree E- Bill and "direct distribution" model to combine biller control, consumer ease-of-use, and quality service through enhanced security and complete event tracking and authentication. * Nov.18, 1998 -- HomeSide Lending launches E-Bill Payment Services to its 1.4 million customers through agreement with CheckFree. * Nov. 12, 1998 -- edocs completes BillDirect software integration with CheckFree E-Bill delivery and payment systems. BillDirect provides billers with a scalable Internet billing server, enrollment processing and bill creation. * Nov. 11, 1998 -- CheckFree Investment Services signs agreement with Vestek Systems Inc. to provide online performance attribution via an integrated data transfer of historical portfolio information from CheckFree APL and APL WRAP clients to the Vestek Portfolio Analyzer. * Nov. 11, 1998 -- CheckFree launches Electronic Banking Association Web site to educate consumers on electronic banking, billing and payment via the Internet. * Nov. 10, 1998 -- CheckFree Biller Alliance Program is launched to help billers deliver reliable, quick-to-market electronic billing and payment solutions to their customers. * Nov. 10, 1998 -- CheckFree and Mobius Systems, Inc. announce agreement to integrate and jointly market a bundled offering that includes Mobius' DocumentDirect archiving and retrieval and CheckFree E-Bill presentment, distribution and payment solution. * Nov. 10, 1998 -- Malaysia Electronic Payment Systems selects CheckFree PEP+(TM) for real-time Automated Clearing House (ACH) transaction processing for the country of Malaysia. CheckFree currently provides clearing and settlement systems for Australia, Chile, Panama, Guatemala and Colombia. * Nov. 3, 1998 -- CheckFree and EDS sign 6-year agreement to include CheckFree's electronic bill payment solution with services EDS provides to its financial institution clients. * Nov. 2, 1998 -- CheckFree Investment Services expands strategic relationship with Schwab Institutional. The upgraded software interface will enhance the user's ability to import account files containing balance, position and trade information from Schwab into CheckFree and will be available to download even faster from the Internet via the Schwablink Web site. * Oct. 28, 1998 -- Bell & Howell and CheckFree team to integrate paper and electronic billing systems into a seamless solutions. * Oct. 27, 1998 -- Dain Rauscher Inc. signs 3-year extension with CheckFree to provide sophisticated portfolio administration, trading measurement and reporting functionality to Dain Rauscher's Private Client Group. * Oct. 14, 1998 -- CheckFree RECON-Plus(TM) for Windows® is selected by Cargill, an international agricultural, food, financial services and industrial company, to provide daily account reconciliation for Cargill's disbursement accounts. * Oct. 13, 1998 -- Nicor Gas and CheckFree launch electronic billing and payment option to more than 1.9 million northern Illinois customers. * Oct. 1, 1998 -- First Union launches first fully integrated online banking, billing and payment Web site, Cyberbanking BillPay, founded on CheckFree services. BellSouth and Florida Power & Light join the launch as highlights of the bills currently available through the First Union site.
First Quarter 1999 Highlights
* September 29, 1998 -- CheckFree and the New Zealand Post sign agreement to provide Internet billing and payment services for the country of New Zealand. * September 28, 1998 -- AIB Govett Inc. selects CheckFree's APL WRAP services to provide portfolio accounting services for AIB Govett's growing "private client" and high-net work investment advisory accounts programs. * September 22, 1998 -- Washington Water Power signs agreement with CheckFree for Web-based electronic billing and payment through CheckFree E-Bill. * September 14, 1998 -- CheckFree announces new TCP/IP communication interface between CheckFree's Investment Services Division and The Depository Trust Corporation -- the world's largest securities depository. * September 9, 1998 -- PNC Bank announces electronic billing and payment through CheckFree E-Bill. * September 9, 1998 -- CheckFree RECON Select(TM) and CheckFree A.R.M.(TM) are introduced at New York Cash Exchange. * September 8, 1998 -- CheckFree introduces client/server-based Windows version of CheckFree APL -- the industry leading portfolio management system. * September 1, 1998 -- Southern California Edison selects CheckFree E- Bill to provide electronic billing and payment option to its 4.2 million customers. * August 31, 1998 -- National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators introduces SCOUT (State Clearinghouse of Unclaimed Treasures) Web site -- central database for states to list unclaimed property records to be developed and operated by CheckFree. * August 17, 1998 -- American Payment Systems selects CheckFree RECON- Plus for Windows client/server solution to automate its more than 100,000 daily transactions. * August 10, 1998 -- Public Service Company of New Mexico selects CheckFree E-Bill for electronic billing and payment. * July 28,1998 -- CheckFree announces agreement to provide NationsBank with expanded ACH system support. NationsBank is the fifth largest originator of ACH transactions. * July 15, 1998 -- ABN AMRO North America selects CheckFree's RECON-Plus for Windows to Reconcile 150,000+ Accounts. * July 1, 1998 -- CheckFree announces London Bridge Software Holding plc to acquire CheckFree Mortgage Products division.
This press release contains statements that are not purely historical, and as such are forward-looking statements under the Federal Securities laws. These include statements regarding management's intentions, plans, beliefs, expectations or projections of the future, and include statements in this document regarding the expected increased use of Internet based billing and payment services (paragraph 6), and the Company's expected revenues and loss for the first quarter of fiscal 2000 (paragraph 18). These forward looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including without limitation, whether consumers will sign up for and use these services when and as expected, whether the Company's customers, particularly financial institutions and Internet portals, timely announce, actively offer and aggressively market such services to their clients and users, whether the Company's business and market assumptions supporting its current revenue and earnings projections will prove to be accurate, the various risks inherent in the Company's business, and other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in the Company's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These include Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 1998, filed September 25, 1998, and Form S-3/A filed June 15, 1999. One or more of these factors have affected, and could in the future affect, the Company's business and financial results in future periods, and could cause actual results to differ materially from plans and projections. There can be no assurance that the forward- looking statements made today will prove to be accurate, and issuance of such forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a representation by the Company, or any other person, that the objectives and plans of the Company will be achieved. All forward-looking statements made in this press release are based on information presently available to management, and the Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. |